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Villa, still in use, built before 1804, probably incorporating 18th century fabric and with later alterations. It is a two-storey with attic and raised basement, three-bay, symmetrical, rectangular-plan harled villa with ashlar margins, an eaves cornice and stone mullions. The grey slate roof has dominant harled gablehead stacks with polygonal cans and ashlar-coped straight skews. The principal south elevation has a centre bay at the ground with stairs and flanking ironwork railings leading to a four-panelled timber door with a sunburst-astragalled fanlight. Above the doorway is a single window at the first floor with a small semicircular-pedimented dormer window above. A further deep-set door is at the basement level opposite a rubble and brick vaulted cellar and under an oversailing stair, possibly with stair down to earlier fabric. The flanking bays each have full-height (including the basement) bowed bays, incorporating wide tripartite windows, with slightly smaller, conically-roofed, bowed tripartite dormers above. A recessed lower wing, a converted coach house known as Plas Newyd, adjoins to the east, and a further wall abuts at the west. The asymmetrically-fenestrated north elevation incorporates a vertically-boarded timber door and decoratively-astragalled fanlight to the centre bay at the ground, with a later piended outshot above. The lower wing is at the outer east. The low, gabled, east (Barclay Street) elevation has a deep-set, bowed tripartite window at the centre and a taller blank gable of the house behind. Internal features include decorative and plain moulded plasterwork cornicing, fluted clustered column mullions and a dog-leg staircase with turned timber balusters. The drawing room has a carved timber fire surround incorporating classical detailing and a delicately carved urn, swags and paterae to the overmantel and a decorative iron grate. The attic bedroom has an ornate cast-iron Baroque fireplace with a timber surround, and there are further timber fire surrounds with fluted detailing and horseshoe grates. The bathroom is timber-lined. Coped, rubble garden walls have a two-leaf, wrought-iron gate. There is a piend-roofed, harled former stable, with a vertically-boarded timber door. The interior is timber-lined with a polygonal pier and evidence of former loose boxes. A watching brief was carried out 2008 to the west, which included a section of the garden (NO88NE0138). No archaeological features or finds were recorded.
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Historic Environment Records (HER)